Common gull
Cepora nerissa
The common gull is a white butterfly with black veins and black wing tips. Underneath, its back wings are washed with yellow. It looks a bit different in the wet season and in the dry season.
Lives in
India, Sri Lanka, China and Southeast Asia, in gardens and open country
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It is a gentle butterfly.
What does it eat?
The butterfly sips nectar from flowers. Its caterpillars eat caper bushes and their relatives.
How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Common gull about 15 km/h (9.3 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Butterflies born in the dry season have less black on their wings than those born in the wet season.
2
The female is much darker than the male, with wider black lines.
3
Its caterpillar is long and round, with tiny white dots and a white line on its side.
4
In the Himalayas it lives up to about 1200 metres high.
you asked
Most asked questions about Common gull
?What does the common gull caterpillar eat?
It eats caper bushes and related plants.
?Where does the common gull butterfly live?
In India, Sri Lanka, China and Southeast Asia.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Cepora nerissa
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Pieridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Pieridae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Cepora nerissa (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Charles J. Sharp. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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